"TUNE THE OLD COW DIED OF," an epithet for any ill-played or dis cordant piece of music. Originally the name of an old ballad, alluded to in the dramatists of Shakspeare's time.

TUP, a young bullock, Smithfield, and drovers' term.

TURF, horse-racing, and betting thereon; "on the TURF," one who occupies himself with race-course business; said also of a street-walker, nymph of the pavé.

TURKEY MERCHANTS, dealers in plundered or contraband silk. Poulterers are sometimes termed TURKEY MERCHANTs in remembrance of Horne Tooke's answer to the boys at Eton, who wished in an aristocratic way to know who his father was: a TURKEY MERCHANT, replied Tooke his father was a poulterer. TURKEY MERCHANT, also, was formerly Slang for a driver of turkeys or geese to market.

TURNIP, an old-fashioned watch, so called from its thickness.

TURN OUT, personal show or appearance; a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a good TURN OUT.

TURN-OVER, an apprentice who finishes with a second master the indentures he commenced with the first,

TURNPIKE SAILORS, beggars who go about dressed as sailors.

TURN UP, a street fight; a sudden leaving, or making off.

TURN UP, to appear unexpectedly.

TURN UP, to quit, change, abscond, or abandon; "Ned has TURNED UP," i.e., run away; "I intend TURNING IT UP," i.e., leaving my present abode, or altering my course of life. Also to happen; "let's wait, and see what will TURN UP."

TUSHEROON, a crown piece, five shillings.

TUSSLE, a pull, struggle, fight, or argument. Johnson and Webster call it a vulgar word.

TUSSLE, to struggle, or argue.

TWELVER, a shilling.

TWICE-LAID, a dish made out of cold fish and potatoes.-Sea. Compare BUBBLE AND SQUEAK and RESURRECTION PIE.

TWIG, style, à la mode; “get your strummel faked in TWIG,” i.e., have your hair dressed in style; PRIME TWIG, in good order and high spirits. -Pugilistic.

TWIG, "to hop the TWIG," to decamp, "cut one's stick," to die.

TURNED UP, to be stopped and searched by the police.

TURNED OVER, remanded by the magistrate or judge for want of evidence. TURNER OUT, a coiner of bad money.

TWELVE GODFATHERS, a jury, because they give a name to the crime the prisoner before them has been guilty of; whether murder or manslaughter, felony or misdemeanour. Consequently it is a vulgar taunt to say, "You will be christened by TWELVE GODFATHERS some day before long."

TWIG, to understand, detect, or observe.

TWIST, brandy and gin mixed.

TWIST, capacity for eating, appetite; "Will's got a capital TWIST.'
TWITCHETY, nervous, fidgety.

TWITTER, "all in a TWITTER," in a fright or fidgety state.

TWO-FISTED, expert at fisticuffs.

TWO-HANDED, awkward, a singular reversing of meaning. TWOPENNY, the head; "tuck in your TWOPENNY," bend down your head.

TWOPENNY-HALFPENNY, paltry, insignificant. A TWOPENNY-HALFPENNY fellow, a not uncommon expression of contempt.

TWOPENNY-HOPS, low dancing rooms, the price of admission to which was formerly-and not infrequently now-twopence. The clog hornpipe, the pipe dance, flash jigs, and hornpipes in fetters, à la Jack Sheppard, are the favourite movements, all entered into with great spirit and "joyous, laborious capering."-Mayhew.

"TWO UPON TEN," or "Two PUN' TEN," an expression used by assistants to each other, in shops, when a customer of suspected honesty makes his appearance. The phrase refers to "two eyes upon ten fingers," shortened as a money term to "TWO PUN' TEN." When a supposed thief is present, one shopman asks the other if that Two PUN' (pound) TEN matter was ever settled. The man knows at once what is meant, and keeps a careful watch upon the person being served. If it is not convenient to speak, a piece of paper is handed to the same assistant, bearing the to him very significant amount of

L2:10:0

-Compare SHARP, JOHN ORDERLY.

TYBURNIA, the Portman and Grosvenor Square districts. It is facetiously divided by the Londoners into TYBURNIA FELIX, TYBURNIA DESERTA, and TYBURNIA SNOBBICA. The old gallows at Tyburn stood near the N.E. corner of Hyde Park, at the angle formed by the Edgware Road and the top of Oxford Street. In 1778 this was two miles out of London.

TYE, or TIE, a neckerchief. Proper hosier's term now, but Slang thirty years ago, and as early as 1718. Called also SQUEEZE.

TYKE, a clownish Yorkshireman.

TYPO, a printer.

UNBLEACHED AMERICAN, the new Yankee term for coloured natives of the United States, the word nigger being now voted low.

UNCLE, the pawnbroker.-See MY UNCLE,

TYBURN COLLAR, the fringe of beard worn under the chin.-See NEWGATE

COLLAR.

UNBETTY, to unlock.-See BETTY.

"UNDER THE ROSE."-See ROSE. UNICORN, a style of driving with two wheelers abreast and one leadertermed in the United States a SPIKE TEAM. TANDEM is one wheeler and one leader. RANDOM, three horses in line.-See HARUM-SCARUM. UNLICKED, ill-trained, uncouth, rude, and rough; an UNLICKED CUB is a loutish youth who has never been taught manners; from the tradition that a bear's cub, when brought into the world, has no shape or symmetry until its dam licks it into form with her tongue.

UNUTTERABLES, or UNWHISPERABLES, trousers.-See INEXPRES

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UP, "to be UP to a thing or two," to be knowing, or understanding; "to put a man UP to a move," to teach him a trick; "it's all UP with him," i.e., it is all over with him, often pronounced U.P., naming the two letters separately; "UP a tree,"—see TREE; UP to TRAP," Up to SNUFF, wide awake, acquainted with the last new move; UP to one's GOSSIP," to be a match for one who is trying to take you in; "UP to Slum," proficient in roguery, capable of committing a theft successfully; so also, "what's UP?" i.e., what is the matter? what is the news?

U. P., United Presbyterian.-Scotch clerical Slang.

UPPER BENJAMIN, or BENJY, a great coat.

UPPER STORY, or UPPER LOFT, a person's head; "his UPPER STORY is unfurnished," i.e., he does not know very much.

UPPISH, proud, arrogant.-Yorkshire.

USED UP, broken-hearted, bankrupt, fatigued, vanquished.

VAKEEL, a barrister.-Anglo-Indian.

VAMOS, VAMOUS, or VAMOOSH, to go, or be off. Spanish, VAMOS, "let us go!" Probably NAMUS, or NAMOUs, the costermonger's word, was from this, although it is generally considered back Slang.

VAMP, to spout, to leave in pawn.

VAMPS, old stockings. From VAMP, to piece.

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VARDO, to look; VARDO the cassey," look at the house. VARDO formerly was Old Cant for a waggon.

VARDY, verdict, vulgarly used as opinion, thus, "My VARDY on the matter is the same as yourn.'

VARMENT, "you young VARMENT, you!" you bad, or naughty boy. Corruption of vermin.

VELVET, the tongue.

VERTICAL CARE-GRINDER, a Slang term for the treadmill.

VAMPERS, fellows who frequent public-houses and pick quarrels with the wearers of rings and watches, in hopes of getting up a fight, and so enabling their "pals" to steal the articles.

"UNDER THE SCREW," to be in prison.

UPTUCKER, the hangman, Jack Ketch.-See TUCK-UP.

VARNISHER, an utterer of false sovereigns.

VIC., the Victoria Theatre, London,-patronised principally by costermongers and low people; also the street abbreviation of the Christian name of her Majesty the Queen.

VILLAGE, or THE VILLAGE, i.e., London.-Sporting. Also a Cambridge term for a disreputable suburb of that town, viz., Barnwell, generally styled "the VILLAGE."

VILLE, or VILE, a town or village-pronounced phial, or vial.—French. VINNIED, mildewed, or sour.-Devonshire.

VOKER, to talk; can you VOKER Romany?" can you speak the canting language?-Latin, VOCARE; Spanish, VOCEAR,

VOWEL, "to VOWEL a debt" is to pay with an IO U.

WABBLE, to move from side to side, to roll about. Johnson terms it a "low, barbarous word."-See the following.

WABLER, a foot soldier, a term of contempt used by a cavalryman.
WALKER, a letter-carrier or postman.

WALKER! or HOOKEY WALKER! an ejaculation of incredulity, said when
a person is telling a story which you know to be all gammon, or false.
The Saturday Reviewer's explanation of the phrase is this:-"Years
ago there was a person named Walker, an aquiline-nosed Jew, who
exhibited an orrery, which he called by the erudite name of Eidoura
nion. He was also a popular lecturer on astronomy, and often invited
his pupils, telescope in hand, to take a sight at the moon and stars.
The lecturer's phrase struck his school-boy auditory, who frequently
'took a sight' with that gesture of outstretched arm and adjustment
to nose and eye which was the first garnish of the popular saying.
The next step was to assume phrase and gesture as the outward and
visible mode of knowingness in general." A correspondent, however,
denies this, and states that HOOKEY WALKER was a magistrate of dreaded
acuteness and incredulity, whose hooked nose gave the title of BEAK to
all his successors; and, moreover, that the gesture of applying the
thumb to the nose and agitating the little finger, as an expression of
"Don't you wish you may get it?" is considerably older than the story
in the Saturday Review would seem to indicate. There is a third ex-
planation of HOOKEY WALKER in Notes and Queries, iv., 425.
"WALKING THE PEGS," a method of cheating at the game of cribbage,
by a species of legerdemain, the sharper either moving his own pegs
forward, or those of his antagonist backward, according to the state
of the game.

WALK INTO, to overcome, to demolish; "I'll WALK INTO his affections," i.e., I will scold or thrash him. The word DRIVE (which see) is used in an equally curious sense in Slang speech. WALK INTO also means to get into the debt of any one, as, "he WALKED INTO THE AFFECTIONS of all the tradesmen in the neighbourhood."

WALK OVER, a re-election without opposition.-Parliamentary, but derived from the Turf, where a horse which has no rivals entered WALKS OVER the course, and wins without exertion.

"WALK THE BARBER," to lead a girl astray.

"WALK YOUR CHALKS," be off, or run away,-spoken sharply by any one who wishes to get rid of a troublesome person.-See CHALKS. WALL-FLOWER, a person who goes to a ball, and looks on without dancing, either from choice or not being able to obtain a partner. WALL-FLOWERS, left-off and "regenerated" clothes exposed for sale on the bunks and shop-boards of Monmouth Street.

WALLOP, to beat, or thrash. Mr John Gough Nichols derives this word from an ancestor of the Earl of Portsmouth's, one Sir John Wallop, Knight of the Garter, who in King Henry VIII.'s time distinguished himself by WALLOPING the French; but it is more probably connected with WEAL, a livid swelling in the skin after a blow.-See POT-WALLOPER. WALLOPING, a beating or thrashing; sometimes used in an adjective sense, as big, or very large.

WAPPING, or WHOPPING, of a large size, great.

WARM, rich, or well off.

WARM, to thrash, or beat; "I'll WARM your jacket." To WARM the wax of one's ear is to give a severe blow on the side of the head.

WARMING-PAN, a large old-fashioned watch. A person placed in an office to hold it for another.-See W. P.

WAR PAINT, military uniform.

WASH, "it won't WASH," i.e., will not stand investigation, will not "bear the rub," is not genuine, can't be believed.

WATCH AND SEALS, a sheep's head and pluck.

WATER-BEWITCHED, very weak tea, the third brew, (or the first at some houses;) grog much diluted.

WATER-DOGS, Norfolk dumplings.

WATER OF LIFE, gin. Apparently from eau de vie.

WATERMAN, a light blue silk handkerchief. The Oxford and Cambridge boats' crews always wear these-light blue for Cambridge, and a darker shade for Oxford.

"WATER THE DRAGON," "WATER ONE'S NAG," hints for retiring. WATTLES, ears.

WAXY, cross, ill-tempered.

WEATHER-HEADED, so written by Sir Walter Scott in his Peveril of the Peak, but it is more probably WETHER-HEADED, as applied to a person having a "sheepish" look.

WEAVING, a notorious card-sharping trick, done by keeping certain cards on the knee, or between the knee and the underside of the table, and using them when required by changing them for the cards held in

the hand.

"WEAVING LEATHERN APRONS." When a knowing blade is asked what he has been doing lately, and does not choose to tell, his reply is, that he has been very busy WEAVING LEATHERN APRONS.—(See newsWATCHMAKER, a pickpocket or stealer of watches.